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in student performance between refugee immigrant and native-born children. We also provide tentative evidence that the …
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Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
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In present day Germany, one in seven children is raised in a single parent household. We investigate the effect of … single parenthood on children's educational attainment, measured by the school track at the age 14, using ordered probit … children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. …
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We examine the effect of single motherhood on children's secondary school track choice using 12-year-old children drawn … correlation between single motherhood and children's educational attainment. Looking for alternative explanations for this …
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This paper utilizes a Swedish alcohol policy experiment conducted in the late 1960s to identify the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on educational attainments and labor market outcomes. The experiment started in November 1967 and was prematurely discontinued in July 1968 due to a sharp...
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Educational integration of children with migration background is an important issue in the social sciences. Few studies … exist that quantify the disadvantage of immigrant children in education and there has not been any attempt to identify …
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We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …
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We examine to what extent immigrant school performance is affected by the characteristics of the neighborhoods that they grow up in. We address this issue using a refugee placement policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is that...
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in student performance between refugee immigrant and native-born children. We also provide tentative evidence that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321458
. Consistently with the literature, our findings show that migrants' children are characterized both by a higher probability to use …In this paper we study the differences between natives and migrants in the appropriate use of emergency care. We focus … on children under one year of age using a sample of more than 45,000 children living in the Metropolitan area of Milan …
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